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brooklynite

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Thu Mar 31, 2016, 01:21 PM Mar 2016

Republican Presidential candidates all back away from pledge to support eventual nominee

The Hill

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have all backed away from their pledge to support the party's eventual nominee, foreshadowing a fight at the convention and beyond that could cleave the GOP into warring factions.

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“I’m not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my family,” Cruz said during a CNN town hall Tuesday night. "That is going beyond the line."

Kasich, who also made the pledge, appeared to back away from his promise as well.

"Frankly, all of us shouldn't even have answered that question," Kasich said late Tuesday, referring to when candidates where asked to make the pledge at the first GOP debate in August.


And yet, you all did...
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